AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGY LAW NEWS American Psychology-Law Society, Division 41, American Psychological Association Fall 2007 Vol. 27, No. 3 AP-LS Conference Update Hyatt Regency, Jacksonville, Florida, March 5th – March 8th, 2008 After a year without the Division 41 conference, we are excited that the 2008 conference is just around the corner! The 2008 American Psychology-Law Society annual conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Riverfront in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. Reflecting Jacksonville’s famous bridges, programming at the 2008 conference will not only bridge psychology and law, but also will bring together clinicians and non-clinicians, students and professionals, and individuals from a variety of backgrounds. All of the conference submissions are currently being reviewed, and the conference website contains all of the most recent information available about the conference (http://www.ap-ls.org/conferences/apls2008/index.html). On the website, you can register for the confer- ence and workshops, reserve your hotel room, view a draft of the conference program (when it becomes available in a few months), read about special sessions, and find out more about the City of Jacksonville. As in the past, the program schedule will include concurrent break-out sessions, poster sessions, a business meeting, the Executive Committee meeting, and several invited addresses. This year, we will be offering several workshops on Wednesday, March 5th. These workshops are intended for all conference attendees and will focus on statistical, legal, or clinical issues. We are very pleased to announce that Barbara Tabachnick (of Using Multivariate Statistics, by Tabachnick and Fidell) will be teaching a full-day workshop on applications of multivariate statistics. Chris Slobogin will be presenting a full-day workshop for legal professionals on the topic of psychological issues in criminal cases. Thomas Grisso, Al Grudzinskas, and Gina Vincent will present a half-day workshop on the legal and clinical issues related to a juvenile’s competence to stand trial. Finally, Karen Salekin and Greg Olley will be presenting a half-day workshop on the assessment of mental retardation in capital cases (i.e., “Atkins” evaluations). Please see the conference registration form (available on the conference website) for additional details concerning these workshops. Several other important events are planned for the conference. On Thursday morning, the Teaching, Training, and Careers Committee and the Student Section will be a presenting a special session for graduate students and/or other first-time attendees. In this session, Bette Bottoms and Edie Greene will discuss the conference generally and present some tricks for getting the most out of attending the conference. If this is your first Contents... or second time attending AP-LS (or if you just want some great information about attending the conference), be sure to attend this session and learn from these Presidential Column .......................................... 2 extremely qualified members. On Friday morning, the Mentoring Committee and the Law and Human Behavior Update .................... 3 Student Section will have their annual Mentoring Breakfast that will allow gradu- Legal Update ...........................................................6 ate students and beginning professionals to connect with established AP-LS mem- Expert Opinion .................................................. 9 bers and to learn from the experiences of these mentors. The conference will also Teaching Techniques ...................................... 12 have two poster sessions with the Dissertation Award winners from 2006 featured Research Briefs ............................................... 15 at one session and the winners from 2007 featured at the other session. EC Meeting Minutes ....................................... 23 AP-LS By-laws Revision ................................. 27 We are very excited to announce some special programming being planned in Nominations, Awards, & Announcements ...... 32 conjunction with the Minority Affairs Committee. On Saturday, we are hosting Division News and Information ...................... 34 several honored guests in the Building Bridges to New Scholars Luncheon. Local Fellowships and Positions .............................. 37 college students and advisors from McNair programs and Historically Black Col- Student Section ............................................... 40 leges and Universities (HBCUs) have been invited to attend the luncheon. They Funding Opportunities.........................................41 will hear speakers talk about our discipline and be able to network informally with Conference/Workshop/Grant Planners ........... 43 Continued on p. 5 AP-LS News Presidential Column Editorial Staff An Editorial by Margaret Kovera, Div. 41 President Editor-In-Chief It is with great excitement that I write my Jennifer Groscup, J.D., Ph.D. first Presidential column for the AP-LS The MAC has joined forces with our hard- [email protected] Newsletter. AP-LS has been my profes- working co-chairs for the 2008 AP-LS con- Production/Advertising Editor sional home since graduate school and it ference in Jacksonville (Eve Brank, Dave Michele Galietta, Ph.D. is an overwhelming honor to be chosen DeMatteo, and Kevin O’Neil) to extend our [email protected] to serve such a talented group of indi- diversity efforts to our conference program- viduals for the next year. This coming ming. We are reaching out to faculty and Past Editor-In-Chief year should be an especially dynamic time students at HBCUs within driving distance Barry Rosenfeld, Ph.D. for our organization as all signs indicate of Jacksonville with an invitation to join [email protected] that the renegotiation of the publishing us for the Saturday of the conference. Each contract for our flagship journal, Law and institution will receive free conference reg- Associate Editor, Research Briefs Marc Boccanccini, Ph.D. Human Behavior, will result in a marked istration for a faculty member and up to [email protected] increase in revenue for the society. With ten interested students. Special program- new revenue comes the opportunity to ming is planned for that Saturday, includ- Associate Editor, Legal Update consider expanding our current programs, ing a discussion of the Academy Award Jeremy Blumenthal, J.D., Ph.D. initiating new ones, and maybe even re- winning documentary “Murder on a Sun- [email protected] ducing our member dues! day Morning” which details the events surrounding a trial in which an innocent Associate Editors, Expert Opinion One important initiative that deserves our teenaged African-American defendant was Matthew Huss, Ph.D, M.L.S. continued support and your attention is tried for the murder of a White tourist in [email protected] the ongoing effort to increase the diver- Jacksonville. Assuming all goes as Eric Elbogen, Ph.D. [email protected] sity of our membership, especially its ra- planned, panelists will include some of cial and ethnic diversity. It would be dif- those involved in the trial as well as schol- Website Manager ficult to dispute that race plays an impor- ars who will explore the role that race and Adam Fried, M.A. tant role in our justice system. With a prejudice played in the wrongful accusa- [email protected] diverse membership, we increase the like- tions against this young man. lihood that different perspectives are The American Psychology-Law Society brought to bear on practice and scholar- We will also invite our guests from nearby News is a publication devoted to dissemi- ship in forensic psychology. We are very institutions to a luncheon for them to learn nation of information, news, and com- mentary about psychology, mental lucky to have a strong Minority Affairs more about graduate studies and careers health, and the law. The newsletter is Committee (MAC). Under the leadership in forensic psychology. Speakers will be published three times per year; February of Roslyn Caldwell, the MAC has devel- invited to provide relevant information to 1, June 1, and October 1. Original contri- oped promising programs to attract young the students but an important part of the butions are welcome, and will be pub- minority scholars to graduate study in our experience can be provided by you. We lished subject to editorial approval and field and to support those scholars (and are hoping that many of you will choose to space availability. A limited amount of others from underrepresented groups) spend your Saturday lunch time with these space is also available for advertising and once they begin their studies. Over the guests as we can think of no better method unsolicited manuscripts. past year, the committee’s Ambassador of convincing students to pursue a career Program has successfully sent some of in forensic psychology than providing For information regarding editorial poli- our most esteemed members to visit His- them with the opportunity to interact with cies contact the Editor, Jennifer Groscup, Department of Psychology, John Jay Col- torically Black Colleges and Universities those who are currently in the trenches. lege of Criminal Justice, City University (HBCUs) as well as Hispanic Serving In- Although there will be a fee associated with of New York, New York, NY 10019 or stitutions (HSIs) where they present the attending the event (see, there is no such [email protected]. edu. Advertising in- field of forensic psychology to under- thing as a free lunch),